Australia’s Hotham ski area has invested $1.7M in new snowmaking for the coming southern hemisphere ski season, to increase the ski area’s output capacity by 40 percent.

22 new TechnoAlpin fan snowguns have been installed on hydrant points throughout the Heavenly Valley snowmaking system. Two of these M-18 guns are mounted on arms providing further reach and hang time (for the snowflakes to fall to the ground) and even less intrusion onto the ski slope.

So long as temperatures are low enough, the snowmaking allows the resort to produce a solid and consistent snow base for a longer period and particularly at the start and end of ski season 2010.

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